Mechanism for walking dolls or other toy figures going on rolls.



PATBNTED MAR.- 15, 1904.

P. FUCHS. MECHANISM FOR WALKING DOLLS OR OTHER TOY FIGURES GOING ONROLLS.

APPLICATION FILED rm. 6, 1903.

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UNITED STATES .Patented March 15, 15304.

PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL FUCHS, BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF TREUDE AND METZ, OFLAASPHE, WESTPHALIA, GERMANY.

MECHANISM FOR WALKING DOLLS OR OTHER TOY FIGURES GOING ON ROLLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,861, dated March15, 1904.

Application filed February 6, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL FUoHs, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,residing at Sickingenstrasse 2, Berlin, Germany, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in VValking Dolls or other Toys, of whichthe following is a specification.

The easiest motion for walking dolls and other toy figures is on rolls,which are prevented from turning backwardly by a ratchetwheel, so thatthe doll can only movein a forward direction.

In order to give to the legs of the doll the motion necessary forforward stepping, said legs are guided in a manner that they can moveonly to and fro in a direction parallel to the plane of the table,floor, &c. The displacement of the legs in this direction must.

be limited, of course, to the suitable length of steps.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the new mechanism.adapted to a walking doll in front elevation, partly in sec- Fig. 2 isa side elevation, partly in section.

- An ordinary leg with the driving-spring a is secured in the hollowspace of the body of the doll, and on each side of the casing guides areprovided for the legs. As shown, the guides consist of two horizontalrods 0 and d of circular section. Said rods pass through suitable holesof guide-pieces 2,, which may be of U-shaped cross-section, in such away that the guide-pieces can move to and fro in lines parallel to theplane of motion of the feet f on a floor, table, &c. The upper joint ishinged to a guide-piece t and the lower joint g, with The hinges k and27 of these parts should have sufiicient friction (or should be providedwith some device to produce such friction) that the whole stretched legremains sufficiently stiff for the stepping motion, while at the sametime the hinges it and i will admit of the doll being brought into asitting or kneeling position.

A shaft it carries at both ends cranks Z, displaced at one hundred andeighty degrees Serial No. 142,230. (No model.)

apart and having a length to correspond to the desired length of steps.The crank for the left side is shown in full lines and that of the rightside in dotted lines. Both cranks are provided with crank-pins m, whichproject into vertical slots 8 of the guide-pieces t. During theoperation of the gear the cranks Z will alternately advance and bringback the guide-pieces t, causing them to slide on their rods 0 and cl,and thus the legs of the doll will move horizontally to and fro.

Each foot of the doll is provided with rollers n and 0, one of which isprovided, in a well-known manner, with a ratchet-wheel and ratchet 19 toprevent backward motion, whereby the rolls can turn only in thedirection which produces the forward stepping of the doll.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination in a walking doll or other moving toy figure of abody having two sides vertically slotted, horizontal guides on saidsides, a leg secured to each of said guides, a spring-actuated shaft inthe body and two cranks, one on each end of said shaft, engaging in therespective vertical slots of the guides, substantially as described.

2. In a walking doll or other moving toy figure the combination with thetwo sides of the body, of a horizontal rod on each side, a guide-pieceslidable on each rod and provided with a vertical slot, a leg secured toeach guidepiece, a shaft journaled in the body, a crank at each end ofthe shaft engaging in the slot of the respective guide-pieces, saidcranks being on opposite sides of the shaft, and rolls on the legsprovided with means to prevent backward movement, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof I aiiix my signature.

PAUL FUCHS.

